Feeling deeply grumpy today. We’d booked Sky to install Sky+ in a shameless move to enhance Murdoch’s millions. The installer came, walked around on the roof with cat-like agility and couldn’t get near our dish. It is in a very awkward place – I have no idea how the guys who put it up got up there – I guess it is a two man job. Anyway. Murdoch loses some money, and we revert to plan A – keeping the status quo. Annoyingly we had a crane up to that very chimney two weeks ago to install the chimney lining. Bah humbug. No live TV pausing for me then. I had thought that even if you cannot get up to the dish I would get the Sky+ box, but apparently it needs TWO aerial leads in to it.

The only way I can think to get near the dish properly is to get a “proper” scaffolder to tower up, but that seems overkill. At least it would protect the tiles. Either that or I wait until Sky come up witha hard disk recording box that only neads one lead in – surely you can split a satellite aerial signal in this day and age?